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According to MEPHISTO, it was a rogue member of the People exiled by God itself from the Worldsphere. After being exiled, MEPHISTO landed on Tyler's Folly and buried itself deep into the surface of the planet. The story is told through a video largely made up of religious symbolism - the exile of MEPHISTO is equated with the exile of Satan (as seen in Paradise Lost) while God is shown to be a figure composed of divine fire. According to Benny, this is the result of a cultural filter. She also postulates that the entire Inner World of Tyler's Folly is a representation of Hell, or rather the evolution of a subterranean Hell into the classical Inner World. After the video ends, !X states that his fellow visitors will merge with MEPHISTO and become nothing more than a part of its operating system. To help !X capture his "companions", MEPHISTO creates two robotic henchmen who promptly attack the assembled travellers. While being attacked, Mr. Misnomer begins punching MEPHISTO and finds its self-destruct switch - which he promptly flips. | According to MEPHISTO, it was a rogue member of the People exiled by God itself from the Worldsphere. After being exiled, MEPHISTO landed on Tyler's Folly and buried itself deep into the surface of the planet. The story is told through a video largely made up of religious symbolism - the exile of MEPHISTO is equated with the exile of Satan (as seen in Paradise Lost) while God is shown to be a figure composed of divine fire. According to Benny, this is the result of a cultural filter. She also postulates that the entire Inner World of Tyler's Folly is a representation of Hell, or rather the evolution of a subterranean Hell into the classical Inner World. After the video ends, !X states that his fellow visitors will merge with MEPHISTO and become nothing more than a part of its operating system. To help !X capture his "companions", MEPHISTO creates two robotic henchmen who promptly attack the assembled travellers. While being attacked, Mr. Misnomer begins punching MEPHISTO and finds its self-destruct switch - which he promptly flips. | ||
Once MEPHISTO's self-destruct sequence is enabled, its robot henchmen stop working. The assembled travellers rush for the dirigible, where they encounter !X. Instead of trying to stop or kill them, !X allows them to enter into the dirigible. Ash tries to tell Bernice that the self-destruct is a sham but Bernice does not listen. As the dirigible flies through the sun, everyone's nervous systems go haywire and merge once again. Bernice attempts to look past the distracting hallucinations and gets a glimpe into everyone's minds (including Fos!ca, who never entered into the sun but has become "a part of the process" regardless) right before the countdown reaches 000 and MEPHISTO explodes. The dirigible escapes being destroyed in the explosion but is thrown out of control by the shockwave. The Eldest are killed after the ship jolts while their human company survives. | Once MEPHISTO's self-destruct sequence is enabled, its robot henchmen stop working. The assembled travellers rush for the dirigible, where they encounter !X. Instead of trying to stop or kill them, !X allows them to enter into the dirigible. Ash tries to tell Bernice that the self-destruct is a sham but Bernice does not listen. As the dirigible flies through the sun, everyone's nervous systems go haywire and merge once again. Bernice attempts to look past the distracting hallucinations and gets a glimpe into everyone's minds (including Fos!ca, who never entered into the sun but has become "a part of the process" regardless) right before the countdown reaches 000 and MEPHISTO explodes. The dirigible escapes being destroyed in the explosion but is thrown out of control by the shockwave. The Eldest are killed after the ship jolts while their human company survives. | ||
On recovering from the blast, Bernice realizes that the dirigible is about to make a crash-landing. Due to this, she (along with Ash and Mr. Misnomer) make their way to the dirigible's controls. Though she has never seen the controls before, Ash finds that she instinctually knows how to use the controls. She and Benny fly the ship towards one of the craters leading to the surface and plan to jump out of the dirigible. Before they can do this, the creature goes berserk after they take their hands off the controls. Mr. Misnomer is able to get the dirigible back under control and decides to sacrifice himself to keep the dirigible under control long enough for Ash, Benny, and Lucretia to jump off the dirigible. While Mr. Misnomer takes control of the dirigible, Ash finds Lucretia standing over the dirigible's transmat intending to use it to escape. Though Lucretia tries to convince Ash that she is "already dead", Ash takes her away. Around the same time, Benny jumps off of the dirigible - landing into a gravitational glitch formed by the destruction of the MEPHISTO machine. Though she assumes that she will be killed by her proximity to the exploding dirigible, she is actually shunted out of the glitch and onto the surface of Tyler's Folly. | On recovering from the blast, Bernice realizes that the dirigible is about to make a crash-landing. Due to this, she (along with Ash and Mr. Misnomer) make their way to the dirigible's controls. Though she has never seen the controls before, Ash finds that she instinctually knows how to use the controls. She and Benny fly the ship towards one of the craters leading to the surface and plan to jump out of the dirigible. Before they can do this, the creature goes berserk after they take their hands off the controls. Mr. Misnomer is able to get the dirigible back under control and decides to sacrifice himself to keep the dirigible under control long enough for Ash, Benny, and Lucretia to jump off the dirigible. While Mr. Misnomer takes control of the dirigible, Ash finds Lucretia standing over the dirigible's transmat intending to use it to escape. Though Lucretia tries to convince Ash that she is "already dead", Ash takes her away. Around the same time, Benny jumps off of the dirigible - landing into a gravitational glitch formed by the destruction of the MEPHISTO machine. Though she assumes that she will be killed by her proximity to the exploding dirigible, she is actually shunted out of the glitch and onto the surface of Tyler's Folly. | ||
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Once Benny finishes telling her story, Pupp returns to his office. On entering, he finds that everything feels different. Pupp boots up his chunkputer to file the interviews with the arrest record but discovers that there has been an integrity breach. As the face of Chairman Manx is replaced with the smiley face of MEPHISTO in a nearby portrait, !X walks into the room and attacks Pupp. Inside of her cell, Bernice begins to think over her story. It is revealed to us that Mr. Misnomer was nothing more than an invention of Bernice's mind to smooth over uncomfortable details within her own story - those being her own massacre of the Tribe of Lillith and Kommander Katastrophen sacrificing himself instead of Mr. Misnomer. While Bernice is thinking over her story, !X enters her cell. He tells her that the "MEPHISTO machine" within the core of Tyler's Folly was nothing more than a representation created by the Tribe of Lillith. He offers to tell Bernice the true story of MEPHISTO before killing her. | Once Benny finishes telling her story, Pupp returns to his office. On entering, he finds that everything feels different. Pupp boots up his chunkputer to file the interviews with the arrest record but discovers that there has been an integrity breach. As the face of Chairman Manx is replaced with the smiley face of MEPHISTO in a nearby portrait, !X walks into the room and attacks Pupp. Inside of her cell, Bernice begins to think over her story. It is revealed to us that Mr. Misnomer was nothing more than an invention of Bernice's mind to smooth over uncomfortable details within her own story - those being her own massacre of the Tribe of Lillith and Kommander Katastrophen sacrificing himself instead of Mr. Misnomer. While Bernice is thinking over her story, !X enters her cell. He tells her that the "MEPHISTO machine" within the core of Tyler's Folly was nothing more than a representation created by the Tribe of Lillith. He offers to tell Bernice the true story of MEPHISTO before killing her. | ||
''As the Inner World of Tyler's Folly begins to fall apart and burn due to the destruction of the MEPHISTO machine, Kryptosa reforms from the Pool of Life and writes his last shooting script in his own mind.'' | ''As the Inner World of Tyler's Folly begins to fall apart and burn due to the destruction of the MEPHISTO machine, Kryptosa reforms from the Pool of Life and writes his last shooting script in his own mind.'' | ||
''Long, long ago - presumably before the birth of humanity, there lived a race of immensely powerful beings. Though they were extremely powerful, they actively avoided technology and sciences and instead worked in ideas. Due to their immense power, these ideas spread out across the universe and influenced various other worlds. One of these ideas was the dystopia (or more accurately, horror and "wrongness"). Though this idea touched most planets, it only took root within Tyler's Folly. Though the archetype had taken root, the planet remained largely formless until Kryptosa arrived on its surface. Shortly after arriving and influencing the planet, he was captured by the Tribe of Lillith and put into the Pool of Life to protect the planet from alien invasion. The Tribe of Lillith also engineered the surface of the planet to keep humans from noticing it (though this ultimately failed, as most of the surface was based around Kryptosa's memories of his homeworld, Ordifica). Several centuries later, God sent !X and he became a part of the process surrounding Tyler's Folly - the process known as MEPHISTO (short for Mankind Expects Pain. However It Seems To Outsiders). The destruction of the MEPHISTO machine did not end the process - it merely let it exit the "womb" of Tyler's Folly.'' | ''Long, long ago - presumably before the birth of humanity, there lived a race of immensely powerful beings. Though they were extremely powerful, they actively avoided technology and sciences and instead worked in ideas. Due to their immense power, these ideas spread out across the universe and influenced various other worlds. One of these ideas was the dystopia (or more accurately, horror and "wrongness"). Though this idea touched most planets, it only took root within Tyler's Folly. Though the archetype had taken root, the planet remained largely formless until Kryptosa arrived on its surface. Shortly after arriving and influencing the planet, he was captured by the Tribe of Lillith and put into the Pool of Life to protect the planet from alien invasion. The Tribe of Lillith also engineered the surface of the planet to keep humans from noticing it (though this ultimately failed, as most of the surface was based around Kryptosa's memories of his homeworld, Ordifica). Several centuries later, God sent !X and he became a part of the process surrounding Tyler's Folly - the process known as MEPHISTO (short for Mankind Expects Pain. However It Seems To Outsiders). The destruction of the MEPHISTO machine did not end the process - it merely let it exit the "womb" of Tyler's Folly.'' | ||
